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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach. He will remember during Covid there was a huge discussion around student midwives and nurses and the work that was being done. It was said at that point that the work was not being adequately recognised and compensated. I just think it is really problematic that we are back in a space where young students of nursing and midwifery feel again that they are not being...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: So I hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Young people and students working within the healthcare system are going to watch very carefully to see what we have to say and whether we are prepared to put our money where our mouths are. On this side of the House we certainly are. I will send on details of the individual case to the Minister. I hope the Taoiseach takes the point, which is made in good faith, that it is in all of our...
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Now we will take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. I call Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would first like to address information which I placed on the Dáil record last week relating to an incident where a Sinn Féin representative sent inappropriate text messages to a young person. It was then my understanding that the young person was 17 years of age because of the information provided on his application form when he applied to join Ógra Shinn Féin. That...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our student nurses and midwives are incredible. They do invaluable nursing work while on placement on wards and, in fact, they keep our hospitals going. They do a minimum of 28 hours a week and they work far beyond their training duties. The McHugh review of 2022 addressed pay for intern nurses. However, the new subsistence allowance for first-to-third-year student nurses does not go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Alan Farrell sends his apologies. He is unable to attend this part of the session. The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have a discussion with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, in advance of COP29. On my behalf and that of the committee, I congratulate the Minister on the recent announcement that he will be one half of the ministerial pairing leading the negotiations on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister. What is his assessment of how changes in the geopolitical landscape, to put it at its most euphemistic, the output of war, the increasing tensions, the increasing sense of retaliatory measures between different states which we look to to co-operate in the context of reducing emissions, have put a dampener on progress that can be made at COP29? Are these countries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and Deputy Bruton. We will go to Senator Higgins, who is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: I will give the Minister a chance to respond. I will check whether colleagues want to come back in for another round. If not, I will come back to the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: I was struck by the statistic the Minister provided that, of the 473 GW of renewable energy put in place, only 2.7 GW is in Africa. Has the Minister been able to probe what is going on there? I recently met the Moroccan ambassador to Ireland and he identified great opportunity in this area, to which he is very committed. What are the barriers? Are they funding barriers or are they more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: The structural question is whether all these microeconomic matters are addressed at the UN or if it is solely the macroeconomic thing of how much money is in the pot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I will pick up on that point because I am interested in it. I will just raise two things. On the overall level of funding for the NCQG, I presume it is the case that negotiations will determine where things land in that regard. Will the Minister provide any insights he might have as to starting positions and anything that has come from pre-COP engagements? On the public-private mix as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I will invite members to ask their questions. Would Deputy Whitmore like to go first?